Thumb
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English
Noun
thumb (thumbs)
- the short thick digit of the human hand that has the most mobility allowing it to be put along with the other fingers, or opposed to them.
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Translations
- Basque: hazlodi
- Breton: biz-meud m bizied-meud pl, meud m -où pl
- Bulgarian: палец m
- Catalan: polze m
- Chinese: 大拇指
- Danish: tommelfinger, tommeltot
- Dutch: duim m
- Esperanto: polekso, dikfingro
- Finnish: peukalo m
- French: pouce m
- Frisian: tomme
- German: Daumen m (de)
- Indonesian: ibu jari
- Interlingua: pollice
- Italian: pollice m, dito grosso m
- Japanese: 親指 (おやゆび, oyayubi)
- Korean: 엄지 (eomji), 엄지손가락 (eomjisongarak)
- Latin: pollex m
- Melayu: ibu jari
- Pitjantjatjara: maṟa mama
- Polish: kciuk m
- Portuguese: dedo polegar m, polegar m
- Romanian: deget mare n
- Slovak: palec m
- Slovene: palec m
- Spanish: pulgar m
- Turkish: başparmak m
Verb
thumb (thumbs, thumbed, thumbing)
- To flip pages; browse through a book
- I thumbed through the book and decided not to bother reading it all.
Derived terms
- thumb a ride
- thumb one's nose
- well thumbed
